Twm Shawn Cattie

The following extract from Cliffe's *Book of South Wales*, furnishes a reply to this Query. In describing the beautiful mountain scenery between Llandovery and Tregaron, he says:— "High in the rock above the fall yawns a hole, hardly a cavern, where once lurked a famous freebooter of Wales, Twm Sion Catti: the entrance to this cave is through a narrow aperture, formed of two immense slate rocks, which face each other, and the space between them is narrower at the bottom than the top, so that the passage can only be entered sideways, with the figure inclined according to the slanting of the roc…